Author Anthony T. Hincks once said, “Make sure that you always have the right tools for the job. It’s no use trying to eat a steak with a teaspoon and a straw.” Have truer words ever been spoken? Imagine setting out to eat a steak with a teaspoon and a…
One of my biggest fears as a professional photographer is that someday, somehow, for some reason, I’m going to lose critical images from a shoot and make a client, and myself, very unhappy. A memory card gets corrupted, a hard drive fails, or my studio burns down. There are so many…
I’m sure we’ve all had data mysteriously disappear on occasion, and my business is no exception. Many of us have responded by calling in the data recovery experts to help us track down our missing data and restore it if at all possible. But what’s it like working in the…
For decades, PC users’ computing efforts have been hindered by subpar hard drive configurations. In most cases, hard drives installed in a standard PC cause bottlenecking. And that results in a lot of lag and user frustration. RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) hard drives have the power (literally!) to…
Hard drives are where we keep some of life’s most important data. You probably store everything from your wedding photos and favorite songs in high school to your résumé and tax records on your hard drive. So the last thing you want to imagine is losing your precious data to…
Freezers. Apparently, some folks think they’re not just for ice cream and Bagel Bites. In fact, freezing your hard drive to recover data was once considered best practice. That’s right, all you had to do was put the drive in a waterproof plastic bag, move the Eggos out of the…
A Compact Flash Card (CFC) is a compact flash digital memory card, with capacities from 128 MB to 256 GB (in a few cases 512 GB). CF cards are a popular memory card format developed by SanDisk in 1994 that uses the technology of flash memory for storing data on…
What is an SSD? A Solid-State Drive (SSD) is one of the most popular, fast and energy efficient solutions for storing and sharing information. Flash controller and NAND flash memory are two things that make up an SSD. The primary goal of SSD is to provide high performance of reading…
Data loss is a severe problem for a business of any size, as losing files means losing money and time to recover valuable information that is crucial for your business. Preventing data loss is necessary to know for every business. Data loss can occur when it is accidentally deleted or…
When Mark Belhumeur went to bed on Feb. 26, he knew a flood was coming. The rain had been falling for days in Northern California. The ground was saturated, the Russian River was rising and some flooding was imminent. But, Belhumeur didn’t know it would be the worst flood on…
